The social system of the Middle Ages was rigidly divided. How did non-elite individuals and groups create new social structures that gave them hope and opportunities for success as the Middle Ages progressed?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The rise of the merchant class
2. Towns as places of opportunity for peasants
3. Universities as centers of power and training for scholars and civil servants
4. Guilds in towns and peasant revolts
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Which of the following is the best statement of the relationship between progressives and business?
A. Progressives generally concentrated on regulating big business by breaking up "the trusts." B. Progressives wanted to use business leaders to champion reform principles. C. Most progressives sought to tear down the business-centric focus of society and introduce a more socialist system. D. Progressives sought greater regulation of business and separation of business and politics.
What is most likely the reason why government officials censored this photograph of a Japanese-American reporting to an evacuation center?
A) The image of a person of Japanese descent in military uniform was considered to be troublesome. B) His being a veteran undermined the notion that residents of Japanese descent were threats. C) The man's evident distress was deemed to be too upsetting. D) The government wanted to conceal the existence of the evacuation centers. E) The decision to confine residents of Japanese descent to evacuation centers was widely unpopular.
The event that required Louis XVI to recall the Estates General in 1789 was the ______________.
A. need for their consent for participation in the American Revolution B. need to reassure France that he was on top of the financial crisis C. need for a loan to forestall bankruptcy for France D. declaration of the Third Estate that the king must enact just prices E. overwhelming concern of the nobility and clergy that the Third Estate was going to riot
How did Britain respond to the Great Depression?
a) It worked to encourage production and increase exports. b) It instituted large-scale deficit spending policies. C) It followed orthodox economic theory and concentrated increasingly on domestic markets. d) It increased investments in its colonies.